TNS, which is regarded as more cautious than other pollsters, said its findings suggested the gap between the SNP and Scottish Labour is much narrower than the 20-point lead given to the nationalists in a spate of other recent polls, but that it was still gloomy news for the Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy.
But the imposing brickwork and gloomy galleries put off modern audiences, according to Maria Balshaw, who runs the gallery.
In a foreign policy speech in Sydney on Sunday following the G20 summit, Merkel sounded deeply despondent about Putin's policies and behaviour and gloomy about the prospects of forcing a strategic shift from the Kremlin.
Instead of hope, there is, for many Zimbabweans, fear of what an all-powerful Mugabe means for the future of the country, and gloomy prophecies for an economy still fragile after the hyperinflation horrors of five years ago.
"However, it's important to consider the bigger picture and when you do, it's clear that the future appears to be rather gloomy still.
After the gloomy tone at last week's IMF spring meetings in Washington on Greece and the eurozone's prospects, the fund's top man in Europe, Poul Thomsen, struck a more optimistic note on Monday.
Things don't look a great deal less gloomy for fans of high end US comedy and drama without a Sky subscription.
The media are always getting it in the neck for being gloomy.
Celebrated in song by the likes of Georges Brassens and Yves Duteil, who both lamented its stern and gloomy walls, as well as a backdrop in countless French gangster movies, La Santé has always had a mythic aura for Parisians.
It's pretty great that something so leftfield and, let's face it, gloomy (if beautiful), has connected with so many people.
But these gloomy thoughts soon pale into insignificance after just one morning surgery at my practice.
